Overview

• Julie Howell, serving a one-year theft sentence at Federal Prison Camp Bryan, publicly called Ghislaine Maxwell’s placement there “disgusting” and said the camp is meant for nonviolent offenders.
• Within hours of the interview’s publication, Warden Dr. Tanisha Hall summoned Howell and told her she was being moved, saying her phone was “blowing up,” according to attorney Patrick McClain.
• Howell was transferred to the Federal Detention Center in Houston, was initially held in the Special Housing Unit without her medication or glasses, and was later moved to general population, her lawyer said.
• Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, was recently moved from higher-security FCI Tallahassee to the minimum-security Bryan camp, a shift experts have described as atypical.
• Inmates and a prison consultant reported heightened anxiety at Bryan over Maxwell’s presence, while Howell’s attorney characterized her transfer as punishment for speaking out.